In proposing a 30% rather than a 40% energy demand reduction target, the European Commission is increasing the risks that European Union member states face from fossil fuel dependence and slowing the economic…

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David Cheskin/PA WireApril 28, 2014

Co-author of the Wind chapter in the forthcoming UKERC book “Global Energy” (Oxford University Press), to be published in September 2015. He is the Academic Head of RCUK Centre for Energy Epidemiology, UCL